55. Jason Pack - On the ’Global Enduring Disorder’

My guest today is Jason Pack, who is the author of ‘Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder’. Jason is also a Senior Analyst for Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defense College Foundation in Rome where he leads a program titled ‘NATO and the Global Enduring Disorder’, which seeks to produce a range of content analysing our current era of geopolitics while proposing actionable solutions to our most pressing collective action challenges.

Jason is also the President of Libya-Analysis LLC, a boutique consultancy providing strategic advice to any organisations seeking to make sense of the latest political, economic, commercial and security developments in Libya. He is also the founder of the US-based non-profit ‘Eye on ISIS’, which conducts research into Islam and Islamist movements in and outside of Libya.

Some of the many topics we covered are:

• Jason’s background and entry into the study of conflict
• Behaviouralist, rather than realist, view of International Relations
• Meaning of ‘incumbent psychology’
• Decline in American exceptionalism
• Defining the Global Enduring Disorder
• ‘Deliberative disorder’ as a political policy
• Difference between the war in Iraq and conflicts like Libya, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela or Ukraine
• Some of the causes behind the Global Enduring Disorder
• The benefits of a global hegemon
• Why market economics was not enough to unite the world
• Western failures after the Cold War
• The importance of social trust to domestic order
• Absurdity of Libya and its representation of the Global Enduring Disorder
• The complexity of the Global Enduring Disorder
• The role of technology and social media in the Global Enduring Disorder

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